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Every Monday we feature “A Stock to Sell” as our daily post. With every stock or investment we recommend as a sell, we give you a full explanation of why we advise against investing in it at this time. In today’s article we have two sells, both from an industry which has a great deal of promise for the future, but hurdles to overcome in the present.
3D Systems Corp. (symbol DDD on New York; www.3dsystems.com), makes and services 3-D printers and provides print materials.
The company’s sales rose 23.0% in the three months ended September 30, 2014, to $166.9 million from $135.7 million a year earlier, though its earnings per share fell 30.7%, to $0.18 from $0.26, on higher research and marketing spending.
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3D Systems Corp. (symbol DDD on New York; www.3dsystems.com), makes and services 3-D printers and provides print materials.
The company’s sales rose 23.0% in the three months ended September 30, 2014, to $166.9 million from $135.7 million a year earlier, though its earnings per share fell 30.7%, to $0.18 from $0.26, on higher research and marketing spending.
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Pat McKeough responds to many requests from members of his Inner Circle for specific stock market advice as well as questions on investment strategy and the economy. Every week, his comments and recommendations on the most intriguing questions of the past week go out to all Inner Circle members. And each week, we offer you one of the highlights from these Q&A sessions. We give you Pat’s buy-hold-sell recommendation as well as his analysis of the stock. This is part of the specific buy, hold and sell advice we offer you in our daily posts. Every week you get “A Stock to Sell” on Monday, “Best Canadian Stocks” on Tuesday, and “U.S. Stock Picks” on Thursday.
Recently we had a question from an Inner Circle member about one of Canada’s bigger Real Estate Investment Trusts. Canadian Apartment Properties REIT—also known as CAP REIT—focuses primarily on rental properties like apartment buildings and townhouses but also on land-lease properties, largely in trailer parks. Almost 80% of the company’s revenue comes from Ontario and Quebec. Pat examines the company’s latest financial results and looks at its prospects at a time when low interest rates favour home and condominium buying over renting.
Q: Pat: What is your recommendation on Canadian Apartment Properties REIT? Thanks.
A: Canadian Apartment Properties REIT (symbol CAR.UN on Toronto; www.capreit.net) is a real estate investment trust that owns multi-unit residential properties, including apartment buildings and townhouses.
In all, the trust owns 41,958 units, including 35,674 residential suites and 30 manufactured-home communities, or trailer parks, with a total of 6,284 land-lease sites. Its occupancy rate is 97.9%.
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Recently we had a question from an Inner Circle member about one of Canada’s bigger Real Estate Investment Trusts. Canadian Apartment Properties REIT—also known as CAP REIT—focuses primarily on rental properties like apartment buildings and townhouses but also on land-lease properties, largely in trailer parks. Almost 80% of the company’s revenue comes from Ontario and Quebec. Pat examines the company’s latest financial results and looks at its prospects at a time when low interest rates favour home and condominium buying over renting.
Q: Pat: What is your recommendation on Canadian Apartment Properties REIT? Thanks.
A: Canadian Apartment Properties REIT (symbol CAR.UN on Toronto; www.capreit.net) is a real estate investment trust that owns multi-unit residential properties, including apartment buildings and townhouses.
In all, the trust owns 41,958 units, including 35,674 residential suites and 30 manufactured-home communities, or trailer parks, with a total of 6,284 land-lease sites. Its occupancy rate is 97.9%.
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Every Thursday we bring you one of our best U.S. stock picks. You get our specific recommendation on the stocks we profile, with a full explanation of how we arrived at our opinion. You will read about stocks making moves you should know about, most often from coverage in our newsletter on U.S. investing, Wall Street Stock Forecaster.
AT&T INC. (New York symbol T; www.att.com) is the largest wireless provider in the U.S., with 120.6 million subscribers. Wireless accounts for 55% of AT&T’s revenue and 75% of its earnings.
The remaining 45% of revenue and 25% of earnings comes from its wireline division, which sells phone services, television packages and high-speed Internet access to 34.4 million customers.
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AT&T INC. (New York symbol T; www.att.com) is the largest wireless provider in the U.S., with 120.6 million subscribers. Wireless accounts for 55% of AT&T’s revenue and 75% of its earnings.
The remaining 45% of revenue and 25% of earnings comes from its wireline division, which sells phone services, television packages and high-speed Internet access to 34.4 million customers.
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Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a beginning or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific investment tips and stock market advice. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental piece of investment advice, and shows you how you can put it into practice right away.
Today’s tip: “Investor shorthand can provide a useful guide to investment information, but it can also oversimplify analysis and events and steer investors into bad decisions.”
Investor shorthand can help you think about and talk about large blocks of investment information. But it may also lead you to make associations and come to conclusions that can cost you money.
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Today’s tip: “Investor shorthand can provide a useful guide to investment information, but it can also oversimplify analysis and events and steer investors into bad decisions.”
Investor shorthand can help you think about and talk about large blocks of investment information. But it may also lead you to make associations and come to conclusions that can cost you money.
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Prompted by an increase in smartphone contracts and success with Fibe TV and Crave TV, BCE Inc. hikes its dividend by 5.3%.
Promoting clean, environmentally sound solutions for office design, DIRTT has a respected CEO but may struggle against strong competition.
Old enough to have helped Thomas Edison with the light bulb, Corning glassworks keeps expanding operations with many high-tech applications.
Every Thursday we bring you one of our best U.S. stock picks. You get our specific recommendation on the stocks we profile, with a full explanation of how we arrived at our opinion. You will read about stocks making moves you should know about, most often from coverage in our newsletter on U.S. investing, Wall Street Stock Forecaster.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to bring in new rules forcing power plants to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030.
Alliant is upgrading its facilities in response. Regulators will probably let it pass along most of the extra costs to customers in the form of higher rates. We feel Alliant is in a good position to handle the new regulations.
ALLIANT ENERGY CORP. (New York symbol LNT; www.alliantenergy.com) sells electricity and natural gas to 1.4 million customers in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
The company has earmarked $5.2 billion for plant upgrades and replacing older transmission lines and pipelines between 2014 and 2018. These funds include $750 million for a gas-fired plant that should replace some of its older coal facilities (coal accounts for about half of Alliant’s electricity production).
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to bring in new rules forcing power plants to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030.
Alliant is upgrading its facilities in response. Regulators will probably let it pass along most of the extra costs to customers in the form of higher rates. We feel Alliant is in a good position to handle the new regulations.
ALLIANT ENERGY CORP. (New York symbol LNT; www.alliantenergy.com) sells electricity and natural gas to 1.4 million customers in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
The company has earmarked $5.2 billion for plant upgrades and replacing older transmission lines and pipelines between 2014 and 2018. These funds include $750 million for a gas-fired plant that should replace some of its older coal facilities (coal accounts for about half of Alliant’s electricity production).
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Transcontinental’s ability to keep the right assets in the fast-changing publishing industry makes it one of our top stocks to buy.
Every Monday we feature “A Stock to Sell” as our daily post. With every stock or investment we recommend as a sell, we give you a full explanation of why we advise against investing in it at this time.
Linn Energy (symbol LINE on Nasdaq; www.linnenergy.com) acquires and develops oil and gas properties in the Mid-Continent region in the southern U.S., the Permian Basin (Texas and New Mexico) and the Hugoton Basin (Texas and Kansas), as well as in California, Michigan and Illinois.
In December 2013, Linn bought Berry Petroleum for $4.3 billion in stock. The move added long-lasting, mature properties and boosted Linn’s growth prospects. Berry’s reserves were roughly 75% oil.
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Linn Energy (symbol LINE on Nasdaq; www.linnenergy.com) acquires and develops oil and gas properties in the Mid-Continent region in the southern U.S., the Permian Basin (Texas and New Mexico) and the Hugoton Basin (Texas and Kansas), as well as in California, Michigan and Illinois.
In December 2013, Linn bought Berry Petroleum for $4.3 billion in stock. The move added long-lasting, mature properties and boosted Linn’s growth prospects. Berry’s reserves were roughly 75% oil.
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